I think I have a little more hope for humanity after the very public reaction to Andy Byron getting caught at a Coldplay concert in Boston cheating on his wife with Kristin Cabot, the head of his human resources department. It was the now-famous Kisscam embrace where the stadium was watching the jumbotron, and the camera panned to Andy, who promptly ducked out of sight. Nothing says I love you like fleeing the public eye. I mean, if you are going to have an affair, maybe he should have been more proud of it. What kind of man did the boss of human resources think she was getting from a guy who would knowingly cheat on his wife with her, and even deny it in public when caught? The whole incident was a multitude of bad that points to a multitude of worse. However, a lot of good did come of it, as Byron was the CEO of Astronomer, an AI tech company with many billions of dollars. After the public’s anger circulated the world, Astronomer dropped him as their CEO, which is undoubtedly a step in the right direction. I mean, how can you make deals with people if they can’t trust you to at least be honorable to a person closest to you, as a wife? What does it say about anybody if they can’t make one basic relationship at home work? How are they supposed to create a culture among many employees if they can’t do it successfully? I tend to be very skeptical of most people and the way they maintain their marriages. I think people are too easily lax with the rules, and it shows a lot about their character when they do cheat. I can’t imagine why a grown man with adult children would want to attend a musical concert. But the public reaction to the affair was a pleasant surprise.

Of course, kisscams all across the world started to make fun of the incident, as most people saw the way Andy Byron handled the whole situation as inherently evil. It’s not a good idea to cheat on your wife. But now you’re a billionaire and a successful person, maybe thinking of starting a new relationship to outpace the mistakes of a previous one. That might appear to be a justifiable reason. But with your head of human resources at your company? Aren’t there other girls to cheat with if you are thinking of doing it? And it looked like there were other people there from the office who knew of this affair because they were embarrassed too, once they were caught. What does that say about everyone involved? If you have to duck away from cameras, you are probably up to no good, and what’s worse is when someone does something anyway. It reveals a lack of good judgment, which raises questions about why he was ever appointed as a CEO in the first place. I know people go to a lot of trouble to look good on paper with their resumes and LinkedIn professional profiles, but they often fail to meet the expectations of reality, which is very common these days, especially in CEO positions. Anybody who would go to a music concert as a middle-aged person with their head of human resources and openly flaunt an affair to the world, but acts like a coward when caught, is showing terrible judgment that fancy interviews and speeches can’t hide. People are aware of this, and it highlights a deeper issue with individuals who run companies, as Andy Bryon did.
When you are a compromised person, and let’s face it, we have a system that has been put in place in our employment culture where we put weak people in positions of power on purpose so that they fall very easily to every little woke rule, or letter from Larry Fink. And CEOs like Andy Byron lecture the rest of the world toward progressive causes. Much of what they do as leaders is cosmetic to cover up their lack of personal integrity. They use their jobs to cover for their low moral conduct. And nobody knows a person better than their family. If things aren’t great in the bedroom and with your kids, we have a culture that has given the illusion that a job can replace those valiant efforts with a personal title of social respect. And if you are cheating on your wife and kids with some other woman, especially one who is supposed to enforce a standard at the workplace against such actions, a level of hypocrisy has been revealed that clearly shows people have strong opinions about the matter. And if people are outraged, that’s a good thing. We often don’t get to see people like Andy Byron beyond news clips. But behavior tells us far more about people, and that takes all the fancy talk you see on resumes and makes them much more real. Nothing says I love you more than ducking for cover when trouble comes. And nothing shows leadership more than violating all your company rules and showing everyone that you can’t even maintain a marriage. So how can you lead a company, or even a department? If you have such bad judgment on little things, then how can you guide billions of dollars of value to the proper place? The answer is you can’t.
When Byron and his lover Kristin Cabot were caught, it was a classic male-to-female embrace from behind. When a woman surrenders herself in such a passive way, it’s undoubtedly a mating response to further advancement, leading to sexual intercourse. It’s an affirmation of safety, that the embrace of a man will make her feel secure with his arms around her, and she holding elements of his arms to show a willingness to be in the passive sexual role. If the woman were doing the same to the man, it would be weird. A larger male embracing a smaller female for sexual union by asserting safety and security to the recipient of sex is a classic signal that everyone understands. But to affirm that it was all phony in an instant, that all the personal contact and pillow talk were as flimsy as Andy Byron himself, was something everyone also understood the moment he dodged the camera once he realized he was caught. And she did too. It was a fun affair as long as nobody knew about it. Or that everyone at the office knew, but that they thought they could all conspire to keep it a secret from the world. People don’t like that kind of behavior, and they let everyone know it in the aftermath. And people were not understanding of Andy Byron. They looked down on him, and that is a good thing. That means people aren’t all out there cheating on each other at every turn. That there are still a lot of people who think that their relationship to their families is still the most important one in their lives, and that if they aren’t successful there, they can’t be successful in other things. Progressive, Democrat society would like to believe that job titles give people power that personal behavior can’t. And no matter how we construct our culture to think that flawed people can be CEOs of big companies, the public has other opinions. And if a man doesn’t dare to stand tall under fire, even when it’s just a camera pointed at him, how can he lead others in anything? The answer is, he can’t. Nobody can. Flawed individuals create flawed companies and societies. And people do expect leaders to be more than average and to stand tall under fire. And to do the right things, even when it’s hard.
Rich Hoffman

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